Note: here, we can give only general installation information (as for the example of a full featured DVB card [1] with hardware decoder). Best is you search for your specific device name in the DVB Wiki.

For AV7710 based cards and kernel compiled without firmware into the driver, if you use the hotplug firmware loader you must put the firmware file in /lib/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw (in previous versions of the Linux hotplug scripts it was /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/dvb-ttpci-01.fw)

Driver Installation

If possible compile the driver as modules, then it can be reloaded without reboot after a crash. After the rest of the kernel is configured

make
make modules_install

and the kernel is to be installed. See the documentation about kernel compilation for further information.

Configuration

In 2004, the DVB driver in kernel 2.6 got the official major device number 212. Before it was the experimental major device number 250. So be aware of it if updating the system. (Under kernel 2.4 the major device number is still 250.)

The following script will help to change the major device number to 212.